News and Events
2023 Graduates
28th September 2023
Best wishes to all of our boys and girls who started school this Summer. We had 55 children leave us to go to school. This was a record! Remember to keep in touch boys and girls and ALWAYS do your VERY best in everything that you do!
QueensWellies has opened!
28th September 2023
We absolutely LOVE our new nursery and have had so many lovely well wishes and positive feedback. We hope that you liked our videos and are keeping up to date with our progress on Facebook. Many thanks to the KingsWellies parents who also visited us on our open days. We loved showing it off to you all.
What have the Wellies Gang been up to this time?
28th September 2023
We have been as busy as usual. We have been completing the Hands Up Travel Survey, planning our Macmillan coffee mornings, working with our extra-curricular teachers, opening Waggy Wellies doggy day care, setting up our space station, opening our Wellies library, serving staff and parents from our Baby Bucks coffee shop, making pizzas for our pizza delivery enterprise, national fitness day, Recycling Week, planting and gardening, learning about the seasons, exploring our senses, how to keep safe, space, friendships, rules, all about me, colours and textures, farming, getting ready for school and moving to our next rooms, exploring minibeasts, visits from lots of important people who help us, talking about our pets and learning about different animals, enjoying our much-improved gardens! We have also opened our new QueensWellies Nursery and have LOVED welcoming our new families. We never stop learning!
Parent Tips, Ideas and Suggestions
04th July 2023
This is a space for parents to communicate with each other. If you have any suggestions, please email us with your ideas so that we can include them in this section of the newsletter.
Messy Children are Happy Children
04th July 2023
As always, we have been playing outside as much as possible. Water walls, water slides, mud kitchen, shaving foam, playdough, construction, loose play, minibeast hunts, hedgehog preservation and so much more! We are having so much fun but sorry if we come home a bit messy!
Aberdeen City Council Pre-School Funding – Session 2023/24 – 1140 hours
04th July 2023
As per my previous emails, KingsWellies and QueensWellies Nurseries will continue to provide the 1140 FREE hours from August 2023. This equates to 30 hours per week over 38 weeks of the year. Please ensure that you read ALL of the 1140-hour funding information that we send you. We are constantly inundated with queries around this. We provide you with this so that you can adequately plan your finances. There should be no surprises. Regardless whether we work a 38-week model (which we do), a 46 week model or 50 week model - you ALL receive exactly the SAME amount of free hours and funding across the year. It is up to you to choose the nursery that suits you best. Thank you.
Nappies and Toilet Training
04th July 2023
We are making a plea to ALL parents to please support us in ensuring that your children are fully toilet trained by the time that they move into the pre-school rooms (aged three years). Whilst we fully appreciate that all children are individuals, the toddler stage is the most appropriate age for this training milestone to happen. Once in the older rooms, children become much more aware of themselves and wearing nappies can lead to embarrassment. We also really want to focus on lots of high-quality learning and teaching with our older children. Nappy changing takes staff away from this very important part of their job. Our staff are ALL here to help you with this very important milestone. Nappies are also only supplied by us until children reach 3 years old. Parents must then supply their own. Please don’t hesitate to discuss with us and we will provide our full support.
Stay and Play Holiday Club – 3 Hour Sessions
04th July 2023
We are aiming to offer a Stay and Play Holiday Club for our existing children/those who have recently left us to attend P1. We always have additional spaces open over the summer holidays, this is because of children leaving us to go to P1. This is why we thought that we would trial this additional option for parents – go shopping, get your chores done, have some space to yourself over the long 6-week summer holiday! Open from 10th July until 22nd August 2023. To book or find out more information: please email admin@kingswelliesnursery.com
Stay and Play and Parent’s Night
04th July 2023
These events were all a great success. Many thanks to everyone who attended. Through consultation, some of our parents asked us to change times (so that working parents didn’t have to leave work early) and to provide a wider range of dates for parent’s nights. I am sure that you will appreciate that staff have lots to do every day, therefore afternoons work best for us. Staff also work very long days (average 9.5 hours per day) so to offer a range of parent’s night dates would mean that they would be working for 13 hours plus in any one day. We try to give our parents as much notice as possible so that you can all attend regardless of times. We will most certainly continue to offer annual parent’s nights and to offer a range of visits to the nursery for parents and friends over the course of each year. Some parents have also asked for a Summer family event. Caroline is in the process of arranging an informal picnic for our families in Hazelhead Park. More information to follow.
KingsWelllies and QueensWellies Improvement Plan 2023 / 2024
04th July 2023
We are at that point again where we are drafting our Improvement Plan for session 23/24. We want to consult with you on our Plan. We will send out our Draft Plan to you very soon. What do you think that we could improve on? What should our priorities for improvement be? Please let us know. Please give us your feedback.